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The Christian Witness in a Secular Age: An Evaluation of Nine Contemporary Theologians is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume presents an evangelical appraisal of modern theological thinking. It examines the views of nine leading theologians on the apologetic task today, from Karl Barth and Reinhold Niebuhr, to Harvey Cox and Thomas Altizer. The strengths and weaknesses in the theology of each are set forth. Donald G. Bloesch contends that modern apologetics is often anchored in the spirit of the age and the...

that the Gospel must be put in the idiom of modern men, but they are wrong when they seek to abandon the mythical imagery of the Bible. They are right when they try to make the Gospel intelligible and comprehensible to modern culture, but they go astray in their efforts to make it convincing and appealing to the cultured despisers of the faith. My position is that the Gospel can be known and believed only through its own power. Surely we should acknowledge the poverty of our attempts to prove the
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